Sunday, November 9, 2008

Just a quick note. I tend to throw myself into things in an obsessive manner, and when I do I often get neglect other things.

Therefore a quick update in several areas.:

1) Switched day jobs. I now work with recently arrived refugees assisting with furniture needs. It keeps me busy and is quite interesting. I spend a lot of time picking up and delivering furniture and just plain lugging couches up and down stairs is not easy.

2) Because of this I find myself trying to learn Burmese, a language that compared to Chinese is fun and easy. I am also required at times to communicate to French-speaking Africans. French is a language I have never studied, but get by with much pantomime and attempts at using other romance language words and so on. Anyway, both languages are improving.

3) I am working on turning my master's thesis into a non-fiction book on the rise of science, the rise of the West and how it led to the Peking Man digs in China in the 1920s.

4) I attended Albacon in October and appeared on several panels.

5) Still no word on when I will actually appear on Manswers, on the Spike TV channel. I do, however, keep a look out for the appearance and will try to let people know.

I tend to write several entries on a subject and although admittedly they are of variable quality by following the topic keys then one should get a fairly complete view of what I think on the issue. There's a lot of good information buried here particularly on some obscure subjects related to assisting newly arrived refugees, particularly from Burma. These subjects include furniture donation issues, driver education and even domestic violence. If these issues interest you, follow the internal links, do searches, there's a lot here and I've found that often people search on a subject using google, I've written an answer, but the search engines sent them to some other entry where I discussed only a small part of the issue. So if a subject that interests you has a truly mediocre entry there is probably a good one hidden away as well on different aspects of the same subject You can't get a full picture on the issues covered in this blog by reading just one entry. it wasn't written that way. If you still don't see what you want, feel free to drop me an e-mail. Thank you.

About Me

Journalist, educator, and low level Asian history scholar who dabbles in fiction. Peter Huston is the author of several books, including Scams from the Great Beyond, Tong, Gangs, and Triads,, and the novel, Excess Emotional Baggage.
Interests include :
1) Internatinal Education and Teaching English as a Second or other Language,
2)refugee concerns and refugee resettlement,
3)self defense and martial arts,
4) Asian culture and history,
5) censorship controversies
6) the skeptical examination of paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims.
Education includes a master's degree in East Asian Studies from Cornell and a second master's degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the University at Albany, party of the New York State SUNY system.
I am not the sailing guy, sports betting guy or the attorney guy. These people who use the name Peter Huston are, presumably, impostors. I am the real
Peter Huston.